MA Thesis - Jorge Lozano 2025.pdf
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… for the accreditation of the program, conducted by the external assessment agency for Higher Education AeQui Nederland. A second type of document included in the analysis are those directly related to artistic activities organised and conducted by CM: online descriptive texts and programme notes for major performance events at the conservatory, namely the Night of Classical Music 2024, the Capstone Festival 2024, the 22nd Music Awards Maastricht, and the Award for Innovation in Music 2024. These … systemic issues of inequality and exclusion (Bull, 2019, p. 6). In search of some inspiration on how to move forward, I want to take a moment, however unorthodox, to leave the conservatory for a moment and step into the museum for the briefest of visits. The discourses of crisis and systemic issues that I have discussed here are not exclusive to classical music, nor unparalleled in fields like museology (Smith & Peters, 2024, p. 2). Just like classical music organisations, museums struggle with … music practices, the steps museums have taken towards fundamental change in their practices and the discussions and struggles around them are of the most up-to-date relevance for classical music. As Wayne Modest puts it in the foreword of The Critical Visitor: Changing Heritage Practices (Steinbock & Dibbits, 2022a), practitioners and scholars who are aware of these struggles in museums share a sense of exhaustion, as in “the act of using something up, or the state of being used up” (Modest, 2022, …